Question by IvanFHagar · Sep 14, 2014 at 03:42 AM · lighting shadows dynamic realtime

Dynamic Shadows not working

Hey! I'm checking the Unity Pro trial period... for some reason, I can't get dynamic shadows to work. I've set a plane and a cube, both to receive and cast shadows... plus a directional light, which has been tried with both hard and soft shadows... I've tried with different rendering path settings as well.

I'm working on a laptop with a dedicated GT-735M. Oddly enough, when I try it out on my Mac, it works right away.

Any troubleshooting ideas?

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JoeW97 · Sep 14, 2014 at 04:20 AM 0

Just a thought… are you previewing from a distance greater than what is set in Edit/Project Settings/Quality/Shadow Distance ?

IvanFHagar · Sep 14, 2014 at 08:10 PM 0

Nope, shadow distance settings have been triple checked.

IvanFHagar · Sep 15, 2014 at 01:57 AM 0

I have arrived to the conclusion it has something to do with DirectX.

Since it did work on my $$anonymous$$ac, and Unity for OSX uses OpenGL, I tried the -force-opengl argument when running it, and it worked!

Now I've just got to see what's going on with DirectX...

thornekey · Sep 15, 2014 at 02:23 AM 0

Also check to see whether the game is on an appropriate quality level to display shadows.

IvanFHagar · Sep 15, 2014 at 04:07 AM 0

Yeah... quality settings were covered as well... reinstalled nVidia drivers, nothing happened but it was worth the shot. Now on to more DX11 troubleshooting, as I also confirmed that if I uncheck "Use Direct3D 11" in Player Settings, dynamic shadows will work even without forcing OpenGL.

Dynamic Shadows not working

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